More from Bob Gill
We need practice solving problems.
Bob GillBob Gill Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.
Bob GillBob Gill Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.
Bill BrysonBill Bryson If you haven’t read Alan Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
Bob GillBob Gill I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside…that’s why I’ve never had a job.
Bob GillBob Gill Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
Bob GillBob Gill No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it’s even better.
Bob GillBob Gill There’s nothing in my head that’s worth anything at all because it’s the culture that put it there.
Bob GillBob Gill How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.
Bob GillBob Gill
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From our community writers
Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski
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More on rejection
If you ever feel unwanted, make no time to distance yourself.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith If I don’t book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different.
Bella HadidBella Hadid Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
Wayne DyerWayne Dyer Someone rejected you doesn’t mean you deserve rejection.
Sania AbbasSania Abbas If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Rejection is better than doing nothing. The more you try, the better you get.
Abel StarcAbel Starc